Why Aircraft Patrols Were a Source of Fear for Nazi U-Boats

[@CanadianAvian]

'Submarine Sinks and Fifty People Die' Smithsonian: *IT'S BRIGHTER HERE*

[@tigervelocityplays8731]

Yea it is definitely brighter here right it has the sun here so it’s brighter! 😂

[@tigervelocityplays8731]

Lol

[@MashFlight]

@@CanadianAvian well they are actively killing others but fair enough

[@onnyholdaway]

By the end of 1942, U boats had already sunk about 2200 merchant ships in the Atlantic. I agree that this figure is "more than a dozen".

[@Doyle-]

Maybe The Sub Is Sinking A"Dozen" of merchant ship is night be a day,hour or A minute So it Typical Because The merchant are so slow

[@bigricebowl3260]

DIMAS ARI NUGROHO no the Smithsonian mini-docs are always unsatisfactory-whether historically or content wise

[@OptimusWombat]

Probably on that date mentioned

[@JohnDoe-qq8ws]

Yeah I was wondering more than a dozen? That’s really really low.

[@someone6170]

I think they were referring to convoy HX229 which lost 13 ships in total.

[@bobmcrae5751]

My father, Sqd/Ldr Donald McRae DFC (RCAF), flew a Wellington MkXIV radar equipped bomber from Gibraltar and the Azores. He primarily flew night time patrols over the Bay of Biscay. He flew with the famous Leigh Light 172 Squadron. The Leigh Light was a 22 million candle power search light that could be lowered from the fuselage and was switched on when the plane made it's attack. He and his crew were credited with 3 U-boat kills: 2 sunk and one damaged so badly it had to be interned in a Portuguese port. He was eventually transferred to the west coast of Vancouver Island to search for non-existent Japanese submarines.

[@jameskolan9195]

My father was stationed with the Navy in Brazil during WWII. One of their duties was to patrol the coast for German submarines that were disrupting the rubber trade. Dad mostly worked "with the backlash of the typewriter," but thought he'd make a little extra hazard pay one day going out on a patrol in a PBY, a slow moving, lightly armed reconnaissance plane. Sure enough, they came across a German sub on the surface. The sub unloaded on their nearly defenseless plane. Dad decided then and there that the hazard pay wasn't necessarily worth it. He always laughed when he told the story though!

[@ciaranc4147]

*In posh accent* like a cavalry coming over the hill! *moves about weirdly*

[@khoi83]

Probably He was imagining the moment Blücher arrived at Waterloo.

[@littlewolf9049]

@@khoi83 *horse neighs

[@Surfer041]

@@littlewolf9049 he's smarter than all of us put together.

[@crusader1997]

“U 384 Had no chance to dive” next picture the sub is under water

[@kaisernavyfield6020]

maybe he mean critical dive

[@Sumo-san]

“Dive”, meaning an evasive maneuver. Where do you expect the sub to go after it’s hit? Up? Gonna fly away?

[@crusader1997]

conorrowens I mean that they didn’t put the scenes in order and I didn’t do it aggressively unlock someone MHMHM CONORROWENS

[@capt.torres3605]

Emergency dive Dives quicker than usual by adding all men to the bow of the sub to sink

[@geoben1810]

@@capt.torres3605 Or a "crash" dive. To submerge as quickly as possible. Which for a submarine is it's best option in order to evade and defend itself and then utilize it's designed purpose to go on the offensive.

[@Twistedglass94]

Dying in a sub would be terrifying

[@8000RPM.]

What about dying on a torpedoed merchant ship?

[@justintang512]

@@8000RPM. not as terrifying as in a sunken uboat.

[@adityaawasthi7221]

@@8000RPM. there's a chance that you will escape from the ship but at the U boat .....there's no chance of escaping

[@simonchoo1108]

@@adityaawasthi7221 if is it not deeper than 30 meters should be able to swim up but of course might have some damage to the body if not doing well

[@dustylover100]

How about those poor souls that died on the Lusitania?

[@bobmcrae5751]

My dad, Sqd/Ldr Donald McRae from Alberta flew night time anti-submarine patrols for RAF Coastal Command out of Gibraltar and the Azores. He flew radar equipped Wellingtons which carried the powerful Leigh light which could put out 2 million candle power and turn night into day. My dad and his crew were credited with sinking 2 U-boats and damaged a third so badly in was interned in Portugal for the duration. I once asked him why they were so successful and he said it was more luck than anything as many other crews never saw a single U-boat during their entire tour.

[@stevefarris9433]

Served on the WW2 diesel boats during the cold war and did patrols in Russian waters and sensitive area around the world. I was young and it was exciting. I understand the pride the Germans had in their submarine service. Young men in the German and the U.S. submarine service were serving their country. So many lost. They were submariners one and all.

[@tieroneactual2228]

Have a friend that served on the Grumpus in the mid-1960’s. It was an old WWII Diesel Boat and he mentioned they were in Russian waters occasionally.

[@stevefarris9433]

@@tieroneactual2228 Regular patrols during the entire year. One patrol ends and another boat takes its place.

[@nevillemason6791]

U-boats relied on running on the surface at night on diesel engines to charge their batteries enabling them to dive and run submerged. Not only did aircraft attack in daylight but also at night using airborne radar and a massive searchlight. There was no escape from being attacked at any time and little chance to charge batteries. The allies had the upper hand in defeating the U-boat menace.

[@dieselyeti]

That's true until the Germans started putting schnorkels on their subs which would allow them to run submerged on diesel power charging the batteries.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@dieselyeti Type 271 radar could detect the periscope of a submerged boat at half a mile distance. Boats running with the schnorkel raised were restricted to 6 knots, could not use their hydrophones, and frequently experienced partial vacuums causing burst eardrums inside the boat. It was, at best, a partial solution, with a number of serious drawbacks.

[@aiwithbri]

@@dieselyeti by the time they started using the snorkels, it was late in the war and they weren't even able to equip all of their subs with them.

[@hellstromcarbunkle8857]

Never once heard of a commander running negative buoyancy, esp in combat. Death sentence.

[@bullworth3040]

lets not forget that the Civil Air Patrol located and sank 2 U-boats during the war.

[@barnabyg6808]

DH Chevalier lol

[@BobbyPlane6252]

DH Chevalier I'm in Civil Air Patrol, it is amazing CAP was able to do that with such basic aircraft like piper cubs.

[@TheRockonist]

2? >_>

[@fhuber7507]

2 confirmed....

[@kristijanfranjoivancic6769]

DH Chevalier, this is why Russia is your "partener" today. Paton was murdered because he hated the fucking red garbages of Moscow. You got excited without thinking that Russia is and it will always be the enemy of the civilized world! Germany lost the war, France lost the war, England lost the war, Russia was and still is the winner! Unfortunately... And a criminal - Putin - is your enemy, my enemy... Paton was a true amwrican! An american cannot love Russia! AMERICA SHOULD RULE THE WORLD! AT ANY COST! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[@TheBattleMaster100]

Why can't we get full length episodes? These clips leave everyone on a cliffhanger.

[@mehmedsviryov7175]

TheBattleMaster100 paid program, that is why its so damn interesting!

[@amirorfiana4531]

2:39 wtf did he have a seizure

[@finleyjacobs-roth2680]

EKO I

[@theofficialcraigsmith23]

EKO I

[@mystic3meyhem720]

EKO I

[@jpstreams5698]

EKO I

[@drewnelson6040]

The damn cavalier was coming!! He got excited...

[@danhatman3538]

Once again, the nazis submarine weapon, has become there metal coffin, *Cheery music* ITS BRIGHTER ERE!

[@ukkomies100]

Exactly. the nazis are so unhumanized that this is acceptable. (not) no, the music didnt offend me but the fact that nowadays some people make fun of german soldiers that died because they were "nazis" most of them werent. their leaders were. They had families, they felt pain they had dreams and hopes as a child just as you did. If they would have said no to their commands they would have been shot then and there.

[@infinitecanadian]

ukkomies100 ukkomies100 The Germans lined up at the recruiting stations for their submarine service. They volunteered. So FUCK them.

[@thejay8963]

Go away, overly patriotic Canadian, stop offending us!

[@thejay8963]

They also give this treatment to videos of violent plane crashes.

[@dasboot5903]

They were serving for the success in the war of their Fatherland .... like Brits, Polish, Americans, Japanese, etc. ..... so give them an HONOUR and pay the respect as a very good sailors of the U-bootwaffe !!!! > It was the damn WAR, and they served well .... as a regular soldiers !!!! Respect them, please !!!!

[@thegreatdominion949]

(2:20) Coastal Command aircraft on patrol almost never flew high enough for their crews to need oxygen. In fact I doubt most of their aircraft were ever equipped with oxygen bottles.

[@thegreatdominion949]

@Wallace For visual sighting and metric radar detection of targets, optimal patrol altitude for most Coastal Command aircraft was probably somewhere between 4,000 and 8,000 feet. With centimetric radar mounted on the aircraft, subs could be detected at the maximum range of the radar at between 3,000 and 5,000 feet and in some cases even lower than that. Hence there was no need on patrol to fly above the level at which oxygen would have been required. It also took far too long to get down to an effective bombing altitude (also diving down to near sea level from medium and high altitudes in the time allotted would have been potentially quite damaging to the aircraft) if you flew higher than that.

[@alexfogg236]

Hmcs Sackville is the vessel used in the renactment scenes. It is the last of Flower class corvettes, convey escort vessels used in ww2. The museum ship is kept in its 1944 configuration.

[@24kRobot]

The hunting analogy at the beginning seems simple, but boy does it paint the perfect picture. Hunting to being hunted.

[@fhuber7507]

Subs were relatively slow, especially underwater with 7 mph (about 11 kph) top speed submerged running on battery. About 20 mph top speed on surface. Aircraft spotting can call in a pair of appx 32 mph destroyers. and when that happened the sub was doomed.

[@russg1801]

Well, a destroyer escort couldn't necessarily concentrate on a single U-boat, no matter how vulnerable. Leaving the convoy at the mercy of the rest of the wolf pack wasn't their mission. They were to deter attacks and get the convoy through. And while a Fletcher-class destroyer could easily do 30 knots, that wasn't the case with the purpose-built 'destroyer escorts' which were smaller and slower. They were only built with enough power to maintain a perimeter around the convoy, and those Liberty ships were slow.

[@BW022]

Not really. Ignoring that destroyers can't necessarily leave their convoys... if the destroyer is even 30 miles away, it still takes an hour to reach the area. During that time it now has to search over 150 square miles of ocean which expands the longer you search. Further, there is nothing stopping the U-boot from torpedoing a lone destroyer... so typically rarely do single destroyers go after a U-boot. So that means pulling 3-5 destroyers (or more likely corvettes since you typically don't have that many). And of course... if you pull that number of ships away from their convoy... other submarines could be present. Main job of the coast command and aircraft was to get the U-boots to dive. Then circle or vector other aircraft into the area. While the U-boats are underwater, they can't follow convoys or travel long distances. Even when they surface, they need to spend hours recharging their batteries. If you were lucky, you'd keep enough U-boats out of the path of the convoy that it would get through. If not, at least the convey would be warned and could evade or prepare. In a few rare cases, the aircraft could attack and damage a U-boat on the surface.

[@hoatattis7283]

@@russg1801 well those slower ships of the RN sank 247 UBoats more than the whole US

[@MrDgwphotos]

@@hoatattis7283 The US Navy was largely busy with a war on the other side of the world, and although there was considerable cooperation between the US Navy and our British allies on ASW operations in the Atlantic, it pales by comparison with the scope of US Navy operations in the Pacific.

[@pilotboy3328]

@@hoatattis7283 The Brits had a head start.

[@rapter9335]

That must be a sick feeling being inside a metal tube on the bottom of the ocean just waiting to die

[@JackVermicelli]

1:05 Why would they need "battery fuel" for propulsion, in order to not sink deeper? Ballast tanks should be responsible for maintaining depth.

[@mikehawk5106]

Thought same thing

[@russg1801]

I think the Liberator [B-24] was used much more often for anti-submarine patrols as it had longer range than the Fort.

[@pipermike65]

True

[@timothyhouse1622]

After 1943, I do believe the video said this was 1942. They weren't adapted yet.

[@raymondscott6720]

The RAF had first call on Liberator production, as well as the new centimetric radar, for the bombing war in Europe. Coastal Command were the poor relation.

[@vielplaysdagames2298]

Sunderlands were the Main u boat hunter

[@morriganravenchild6613]

Don't forget the major cockups by Adm King USN on tackling the U boat problem right at the start of US involvement.

[@mikeyforester6221]

yeah your right. the brits told the yanks to sail in convoy but they didn't listen being the big headed know it all's that they are, they lost a lot of crew in the early parts of the war to u boats because they wouldn't listen.

[@thegoodearth2396]

@@mikeyforester6221: Ernest King had an insufferable ego on par with Douglas MacArthur, and the Pacific Ocean was almost too small to accommodate both of them. The Pacific is where King wanted the United States to fight the war, not the Atlantic, mostly because the US was first attacked by the Japanese, and not the Germans. King considered that the "Germany first" approach to winning the war was nothing more than a political campaign slogan initiated by Churchill, and King was totally in favor of diverting most of the American naval effort to the Pacific. After Midway in June of '42, due to shipping restrictions (caused mostly by King sending most available transports to the Pacific), there was nothing the Allies could do in Europe or northern Africa until late 1942. King took this opportunity to convince Gen. George Marshall to press the JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) to attack the Solomons (Guadalcanal) in early July, knowing that such a shoe-string invasion would not be allowed to fail by the JCS. By late October the US had enough transports to conduct Operation Torch in northern Africa. There were a whole bunch of political arguments for the Pacific operations as well (popular support, FDR, etc), that are beyond the scope of this argument...

[@mikeyforester6221]

@@thegoodearth2396 good comment, well written. they still wouldn't listen to the brits though.

[@alexamerling79]

40,000 German sailors served on U Boats during WWII. 30,000 never came back.

[@matthewgray469]

It's a crying shame those 10,000 made it back

[@NokotanFanCentral]

@@matthewgray469 it’s a crying shame that your rude

[@jaybartgis5148]

"Like the Calvary coming over the hill..." - Professor Eric Grove

[@white3298]

*Cavalry*

[@keks6014]

THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

[@esquire9445]

Those guys stuck in that submarine must have had a sinking feeling.

[@geraldshields9035]

There’s something to be said about a weapon that can attack you from hundreds of feet in the air and you can’t fight back with anything.

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

German subs were equipped with 20mm guns by then. Didn't make much difference though

[@benracer]

this is neat. something my grandfather did, but his plane was the PB4Y-1

[@BobbyPlane6252]

It's Brighter Here™

[@ColoradoMiniCrawlers]

Those led flashlights were way brighter than anything they had in the 40s

[@alexius23]

When escort carriers became available the gap of no air coverage shrank down to zero

[@alexamerling79]

40,000 German sailors served on U Boats during the war. 30,000 did not come back.

[@Andy-iq9pz]

2:39 Somebody is very excited about their job

[@wannamontana4130]

Love the visuals when it tagged the bottom

[@flukeman022]

When a fish is hunting cygnets but gets shadowed by a swan the fish eventually gets taken by a eagle.

[@noregretlife120]

Rest In Peace to every sailor that have die to protect their country..🌹

[@CrashB111]

They were Nazis, dude.

[@vaibhavsrivastva1253]

@@CrashB111 They were still fighting for their country, stop hating them.

[@puffin51]

The Americans were producing so many four-engined long range aircraft by 1943 - a technology in which they led the world - that they could spare B-17's and B-24's for long range maritime roles. The British had quite a few, too, and Lancasters were coming off the lines, but they only put aircraft they couldn't use as bombers into ASW - Sunderland flying boats, mostly, and they assigned them low production priority. This was, in my opinion, a grave mistake. Despite the utmost heroism and skill of Bomber Command crews, the results of night area bombing never justified the resources devoted to it - while a few hundred aircraft of the same types, slightly modified, put into the Battle of the Atlantic, would have saved countless ships and lives, and millions of tons of vital supplies would have been delivered to Britain instead of going to the bottom.

[@ronnieince4568]

Almost 1000 Short Sunferlsnds were built and they accounted for a lot .of U boats sunk by aircraft. They had radar and could spot a U boat on the surface at night charging its batteries and using the fitted Leigh searchlight illuminate the target and depth charge it before it submerged .

[@pipermike65]

Flying boats could land and drop sonar probes in the water too. Sit for hours listening for subs

[@ronaldlee3537]

Depth charges were mostly ineffective against submarines, but then the invention of the hedgehogs changed that.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

anything that can sink you is a fear.. and anything that can sink you at 100 mph is worst fear

[@coolshorts3390]

I love it how the video scene ends of 47 crew members dying then happy music comes on. Like c'monnn.

[@jerribee1]

Yeah, we'll don't forget that u boat crews referred to July-October 1940 as the Happy Time. This was just their not-so-happy time.

[@xiro6]

next episode,"why enemy firing at you is a source of fear in wars"

[@DavidLMadWI]

American here. Well that was silly. The U boat spotters at the end of this clip must have been from the Helen Keller School for the Blind because it would be pretty hard to miss a B-17 or B-24. Big and slow! Even if there wasn't time to dive and assuming the U boat captain had gun crews at the ready, taking their stations as soon as the sub surfaced, it's not too hard to imagine the gunners knocking a lone bomber or two out of the air. I'm guessing the spotters in Das Boot were much more closer to the real thing than these guys, and the video producers trying to make their point.

[@slopcrusher3482]

You also have to realize that these guys have been doing this for hours on end, and the glare from the water makes it hard to focus, also its very hard to determine a single planes height/speed, the most you could do is create a small bubble of protection for a very short amount of time

[@morriganravenchild6613]

Leigh Light at night!

[@jamesricker3997]

Submarines are bigger, so the aircraft sees them first. The aircraft is traveling at 200 mph so not much reaction time. That B-17 just came out of the clouds right on top of the U-Boat.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

youre an idiot.. a plane will see a ship way before the ship sees it,,,, because the ship or submarine is 100x times bigger...duhhh

[@Slemoster]

Why was a weapon never developed for submarines that allowed them to fire upwards? I doubt it'd have been hard for them to rig some sort of porcupine based device (Commonly used by destroyers to sink subs) to the top of a submarine. When a destroyer comes along to drop it's depth charges, they fire the 30 or so projectiles upwards, all you need is one hit to put a hole in the underside of the ship. And unlike the destroyer, the Sub could have a modified periscope to look upwards and detect when a ship was directly above.

[@stevek8829]

The sub would be directly below the explosion! Great idea.

[@JustMe-gh7ib]

Note to self: Don't read the title of the clip while reading sideways in bed. Aircraft Patrols looked strangely like African Parrots....was trying to figure parrots into this battle scene....🤣

[@terrancecoard388]

It is about the ship/submarine. A lot of young men died in a moment.... no one celebrates that! USAF Veteran.

[@jesseklassen3417]

Does anybody know where these clips are from? Is there a full ducumtary?

[@525Lines]

Over 2700 mass produced liberty ships were made in US shipyards.

[@toxicwolf2220]

525Lines and we care because

[@MissDragonByt]

Submarines by their very nature are highly vulnerable when caught on the surface: if anything puts a hole in it you cant submerge. But it wasn't the one way fight its been made out to be with aircraft; during the war u-boats shot down over 600 airplanes that were attacking them

[@edisoncambod8335]

The lives lost by submarine crew per merchant boat sunk is worth it because according to German study, the materials delivered by a single merchant ship that reaches land ( Russia) will take the Germans five months and lots of soldiers lives to destroy.

[@rupvictoria3017]

Civil Air Patrol planes took part in hunting down U Boats off the East Coast of the US

[@daleburrell6273]

3:36 THE HUNS REALLY GOT A BANG OUT OF THAT ONE-!!!

[@Unknown_technique]

Wish the episodes were longer than a few mins

[@JBBrickman]

0:08 NAATZI ?

[@AnimatedAirlines]

ikr

[@ethanbai9639]

Exactly what happens. If u have seen Greyhound, the movie plays a lot of the same aspects.

[@lintonmcdonaldjr.7884]

Good film. Well played by Hanks. No meaningless back stories or dialogue.

[@vielplaysdagames2298]

Not a lot of realism in it as subs frequent try to fight him on the surface which would not have happened

[@somosgenel]

+Smithsonian Channel Could you please upload the full episode??... Thank you in advance.. Sincerely A heavily indebted, cash strapped college student...:O(

[@therft0rblx437]

When the U-boat sank to the ocean floor i saw another submarine on the sea floor

[@natepda]

I think that was a ship, most likely sunk by the u-boat

[@daleburrell6273]

@@natepda ...NOT LIKELY- AND AT LEAST THE SUNKEN U-BOAT HAD COMPANY ON THE BOTTOM-!!!

[@alfredjohnston2672]

Yea it looks like a ship but the size of that ship looks like the same size as the u boat so its either a small destroyer or a british sub

[@lc7327]

Is there any full documentary for this

[@gregwarner3753]

Submarines depend on stealth like any ambush hunter. Patrol aircraft reduce that stealth and increase submarine casualties. Such is the way of war.

[@irenemichaelpadi1035]

whats the name of this allied aircraft

[@starfruitpvp1853]

3:24 F

[@pleasedontwhipmemaster2353]

2:39 Screaming ! I thought he was transforming into a werewolf😱

[@khoi83]

It,s like Blücher arriving at Waterloo.

[@AnalogBuddy]

It is unbelievable that those u-boats didn't have any radar to stop incoming air patrol

[@algrayson8965]

? Radar won't stop aircraft patrols. WWII era radar was bulky, used a lot of power, not very effective.

[@honkhonk8009]

@@algrayson8965 I mean they couldv used it to detect aircraft but still i guess.

[@freeagent8225]

The Kreigsmarine never had a problem with recruitment even towards the end. Brilliant propoganda. I would join tomorrow if had the chance, just to be able to shout " Alarm".

[@nyaswed1520]

You don't know what you are talking about. By 1944, Germany had to force crews from its surface fleet to crew its subs. No-one was volunteering. They knew it was a very small chance to survive more than 2 missions. Of approximately 40000 who served, less than 10000 survived the war.

[@stbg1719]

Was the vessel on the sea floor behind U-384 as she hits?

[@Semi_Sphere]

StBg 17 yup a Convoy

[@tiguan1964]

U 530 was a type IX not a type VII shown here

[@dasboot5903]

CORRECT !!!!

[@deadmask5467]

Must have been scary in that German U-boat in the bottom of the ocean.

[@TheCzechthomas]

one of the most famous squadrons of RAF Costal command - Czechoslovakian 311 squadron with liberator B-24 - check them out

[@lckoolg622]

Very good

[@zuletango]

My late Father in law spent four years in the U Boats before being sunk by a Sunderland Flying boat the Boat was blasted to the suface all but two crew survived

[@matthewgray469]

It would have been better if none of those Nazis survived

[@zuletango]

@@matthewgray469 I do love a racist bigot Not all U boat personal were Nazis learn your history

[@kioata]

*U-Boat sinks killing everyone* The outro: It's brighter here.

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

Either compression, internal explosion, or lack of air - I wouldn’t want that

[@stevedoolan1540]

1:03 That's not machinery, that's wallpaper.

[@xtralarsproductions]

0:35 When you order Ryan Phillippe from wish

[@tommo01]

Eric Grove needs to learn about tenses. Talking about historical events in the present tense is not cleaver!

[@Noeman2009]

CLEVER

[@7r3xy96]

just finish Greyhound and this pops out in my recomendation

[@scooteryooper3133]

Do a video about U-505

[@mariacornwallis1602]

If a ship is American it is called American... If a ship is British it is called Allied (that is American language )

[@blaumax918]

Had the Germans come with the elektraboot earlier in the war, the Allies would have lost the sea war for certain, and subsequently the war as well, the lend lease with USSR would have been jeopardised as well. The captured elektraboots provided the blueprint on the basis of which the US built USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine.

[@honkhonk8009]

@Zfast4you also germany was running out of oil so i guess it was a losing scenario anyways

[@ambrozz_plays7992]

Still would've forced the allies to make better technology and techniques to hunt them down

[@skelejp9982]

Only today I learned that over 700 U-Boats of the WW2 Germans Sunk. Imagine that !

[@anthonyivanaglugubjr.2645]

Skele Joop 700 x 50 crews = 35,000 German men Possible Dead. Does This Relate Near the German Precision Statistics?

[@aleksandarlenhart2078]

Anthony Ivan Aglugub Jr. No 30 000

[@stevenpilling5318]

Three quarters of the U-boat crews that put to sea never returned. Yet, the German submarine service never lacked for volunteers. It speaks well of those men.

[@lemniscate2218]

I love his accent " ah vear o volf".

[@theklrdudeoo9173]

you play with the bull ,........you get the horn !

[@bobmcrae5751]

The worst month for shipping losses to U-boats was May 1917.

LIKE THE CAVALRY COMING OVER THE HILL!!! 🤗🧐🤗🧐🤗

[@neilouellette3004]

That submarine would implode from the pressure of the deep N. Atlantic. It would never sink intact to the bottom.

[@coolshorts3390]

47 crew members died Happy music turns on

[@melardcasing5122]

Oh! Poor people 😔😔😔😔 so very pity

[@roberthudson1959]

Aircraft aren't even mentioned for 2/3 of the video, and the explanation of why planes are a threat to subs is minimal at best.

[@scottfuller5194]

New British airborne 10cm radar.....and new airborne HF-DF and the technical failures of the German navy's new radar detector....closure of the Atlantic gap by long range patrol aircraft, introduction of new US convoy-escorting aircraft carriers and their attack aircraft, new forward-throwing hedgehog mortars, new variable depth-setting depth charges, new deployed ship borne 10cm radar and HF-DF, better long range night-capable binoculars and telescopes, better convoy escort anti submarine tactics, change of ship Convoy code system, tactical plotting of known UBoat identities locations, intercepting of enigma ciphers to and from German resupply-refuelers, resupply torpedo ships, BDienst intelligence trawlers, UBoats converted as refuelers for forward deployed UBoats, etc allowing for tactical,attacks sinking them, destroying German UBoat resupply logistics network world wide.

[@raysubsonic]

Yep. A few good points there. lol !

[@couespursuit7350]

And thus the VP/ASW Navy was born.

[@tomsbunk3790]

A fish hunting for bugs on the surface not knowing a watchful eye scan entire surface hunting for fish

[@christiane.g.4142]

It's certainly true that medium range bombers were the terror of surfaced u-boats, but the destroyer was the teror of submarines whether surfaced OR submerged

[@robot-he6nq]

That isn’t necessarily true. The U-boat has the element of surprise, and can fire off its torpedoes then crash dive before the destroyer can reach its location . Destroyers were a threat to U-Boats, but not as much as planes. If destroyers were a huge threat, how did the Germans manage to sink so many Allied merchant shipping when almost all of them were protected by destroyers? Destroyers have to keep with their fleet, whereas planes can be more aggressive and search out.

[@algrayson8965]

@@robot-he6nq - During daylight aircrewmen often could see submerged submarines. They didn't usually go very deep. They had to stay close to the surface to detect and torpedo surface ships. The schnorkel didn't let them go down very far.

[@herculean616]

Imagine if there were helicopters in this era and how effective it is against subs.

[@lucasfreitas4803]

uhm, helicopters are slow and have short range wouldn't do much imo

[@herculean616]

@@lucasfreitas4803 Is that so, you should check out the NH90 which is specifically made to hunt subs, it's also a helicopter :)

[@lucasfreitas4803]

​@@herculean616 yeah but by the time the NH90 was invented we already had supersonic jets with much more range, speed and armament

[@herculean616]

Helicopters are better at hunting subs than supersonic jets. Submarines doesn't need a jet the can go supersonic to get hunted.

[@herculean616]

Jets are not even meant to be for sub hunting, so why are you even comparing a heli to them?

[@Raap123]

Regardless which side you fought on this would be a horrible way to die.

[@matthewgray469]

The Nazis deserved a horrible way to die, they started the war and murdered millions in their death camps as well

[@NokotanFanCentral]

@@matthewgray469 so did the allies, but uh yeah, not to mention not all the Nazis were

[@deltaboy767]

I'll bet them U-boats smelled amazing inside. With all those men on one submarine for several weeks, pouring sweat. I bet that masculine aroma just permiated the vessel.

[@solarsatan9000]

What you mean the planes that would sink u-boats rescuing survivors from sunk convoys

[@vielplaysdagames2298]

Sunderlands would and could as they could land on the water and were the main uboat hunting aircraft

[@cangjie12]

Why is it a ‘Nazi U boat’? It is a German U boat. There was never such a thing as a ‘Nazi’ U boat. When you see a spade, call it a spade. Most Germans won’t get offended if you call it a ‘German’ U boat (which is exactly what it was).

[@donlove3741]

3/4 uboot sailors died. Not good odds

[@toxicwolf2220]

straight terrifying

[@gillesguillaumin6603]

Eric Grove is very nice, but like cavalry, planes come too late. How many ships have been sunk, only by stupidity of Admiral King ?

[@chitrasensahoo1815]

Rest in peace all sailors who died on Submarine 😭😭❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@pabillonkurt7584]

They were nazis btw 😐

[@NokotanFanCentral]

@@pabillonkurt7584 so? That’s like saying “RIP all that crew in the Sherman tank” after they shot civilians, just because they’re Germans doesn’t mean they’re Nazis

[@vipericys]

@@pabillonkurt7584 my ranked team mates